The Second Amendment Foundation is calling for a five-day waiting period on journalists before they exercise their First Amendment rights. Noting that Newsweek's false report on U.S. interrogators desecrating the Koran resulted in more deaths than the actions of the Beltway snipers or University of Texas Tower killer Charles Whitman, the group insists it is only fair that Newsweek and other press organs that regularly demand five-day waiting periods on a citizen's Second Amendment rights should endure five days of FBI vetting of their stories before publication.

Brilliant.

hhah great!

The day that waiting period passes is the day they close the borders to this country.

5-day waiting period would be wrong. I think Newsweek sould be sued by the families who lost somebody because of there faulty reporting.

From Voice of America:
General Myers also told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday that the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Carl Eichenberry, disagrees with the reports that protests in the city of Jalalabad were caused by anger over the alleged Koran incident.

"It is the judgment of our commander in Afghanistan, General Eichenberry, that in fact the violence that we saw in Jalalabad was not necessarily the result of the allegations about disrespect for the Koran, but more tied up in the political process and the reconciliation process that President Karzai and his cabinet are conducting in Afghanistan. He thought it was not at all tied to the article in the magazine," he explained.

Found at: http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-12-voa74.cfm

but keep on saying it's because of newsweek. i'll believe you more than the army chief of staff, just like i believe michigan state students riot over football and basketball games.

Funny suggestion, but how exactly did this blurb become seen as the catalyst for a riot in Afghanistan? That sounds pretty odd to me like Kel writes above.

Pen is mightier than the sword I suppose.

"In the wake of the tragic events that we found out about on September the Sixteenth..."

We shouldn't worry that honest constitutionalists are serious about this. It's a publicity issue. It poses an interesting question. And I would hope that's all it would do.

According to theorists, the five-day waiting period does not deny anyone of their second-amendment rights. So, it goes to argue that waiting periods can be put on other rights, without denying them.

Kel

The Newsweek report had allot to do with it. Sure there may have been other factors involved. After all, it is not as though an Islamic Extremist needs much of an excuse to commit violent acts. Even Newsweek admits they were at least partially responsible. They have since apologized for the loss of life that occurred because of their story.

good one! I'm mailing this one to the Carnival of Cordite.

Pakistan demonstrations were, at least in part, staged, i.e. not purely spontaneous. Didja notice the carefully painted signs, in ENGLISH, that the protesters displayed?

As for a five-day waiting period, like it currently is with guns, are we supposed to wait five days to exercise every other Bill of Right right too? Interesting claim about gun rights, but that limit is designed in theory to protect Americans' lives. It's not like almost 20 Americans were killed as a result of this news story.

Ann Coulter wrote an interesting article today about Newsweek’s Isikoff and how he did not apply the same ‘full speed ahead’ passion when sitting on legitimately corroborated stories about Bill Clinton and his affairs with Lewinsky, Wiley and Jones.

So, apparently, he used the ultimate discretion (balancing on cover up) to protect the reputation of a liberal democrat serial sexual harasser when the charges were true but no such discretion regarding an unsubstantiated and untrue story got people killed and put our troops in greater risk.

That's a good point.